Busy Being Fabulous

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“Busy Being Fabulous”

Single by Eagles
from the album Long Road Out of Eden

Released

Janurary 2008 (U. S.)

Format

CD single

Genre

Soft rock, country rock

Length

4:17

Label

Lost Highway

Writer(s)

Don Henley, Glenn Frey

Eagles singles chronology

"How Long"
(2007)

"Busy Being Fabulous"
(2008)

"Busy Being Fabulous" is the current single by the American rock band Eagles. Released in January 2008, it is the second single from their 2007 album Long Road Out of Eden, and their third Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

1 Song
2 Video
3 Chart performance
4 External links

[edit] Song

The song features Don Henley on lead vocals, and lyrically describes a strained love life between a frustrated male and a female who spends far too much time trying to climb the social ladder, hence the lyric "You were just too busy being fabulous/Too busy to think about us".

[edit] Video

The video for the song was released to YouTube in early February, and features the band performing the song at a dinner party in formal wear. Interspersed with the performance is the story of the song as it happens, featuring the band playing several different roles at once:

Timothy B. Schmit as a waiter
Glenn Frey as a bartender
Joe Walsh as both a policeman and a security guard. His sidekick for both roles is a monkey.
Don Henley as both a party goer and Walsh's police partner.

The video also marks the first time Steuart Smith has appeared in any Eagles video.

[edit] Chart performance

"Busy Being Fabulous" entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts at #40 on the chart week of February 23, 2008. It reached a peak of #28 on the week of March 22 before falling the next week. As of May 2008, the song has reached #13 on the Adult Contemporary charts.